Deviated septum and piercings?
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Monday March 9th, 2009 @ 2:42 PM
Filed under: Nose
I had a deviated septum and have since had surgery to correct it. I was poking around in there as I contemplated a septum piercing and found that I don’t really feel a sweet spot anymore. I’m wondering if it would hurt the results of the surgery to pierce my corrected septum, and also if it is wise to pierce through cartilage instead of the sweet spot?
Unless you are planning on doing a large-gauge piercing, I think it’s unlikely the piercing will interfere with the corrective surgery you have done. However, I would also suggest consulting your surgeon just to make sure. They probably won’t be thrilled at the idea of you doing it, but hopefully you can get them to give you some straight talk about how it might affect things.
Septum piercings can be done through cartilage. In general, you should expect it to hurt more to get it done, be sore for a longer period of time afterwards and in general, take a bit longer to heal. That’s just the nature of cartilage tissue.
You may want to consult with your piercer about different options for piercings, such as a needle that is a bit larger than the jewelry or perhaps a dermal punch (even at a smaller size). These things may help the piercing be more comfortable while it’s healing and perhaps heal a little faster.
Also, if you decide to stretch the piercing at some point, expect the stretching to be more difficult.
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2 Responses to “Deviated septum and piercings?”
I had exactly the same thing. I waited 2 years after the surgery on my surgeons advice and have had no problems whatsoever - have even stretched it from 14g to 10g with plans to go bigger. My surgeon said that as long as your nose is completely healed from the surgery it should be just the same as a ‘normal’ nose.
craig on March 10th, 2009 at 5:17 amHi there
Pete on March 12th, 2009 at 3:17 amI have also had this surgery (about 10 years ago) and was concerned also that piercing my septum might be problematic. I made sure I found a piercer with a LOT of experience doing septums, which turned out to be a good thing, and I recommend you do as well. As for the piercing itself, I got it at 12ga and it was pretty straight forward but hurt A LOT as apparently I have got a lot of scar tissue there which required some force to pierce through. However, healing was a snap and no problems there are all - maybe all the scar tissue there already helped in some way? Anyway, you should be fine… just like I said, make sure you get a piercer with a lot of experience with doing septums, so he/she knows their way around the inside of a not-so-standard nose. Good luck!
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